Courtroom environments, which have been one of the last bastions of the oral tradition, are
slowly morphing into cinematic display environments (Heintz, 2002). The persuasive oral
rhetoric of lawyers is increasingly being replaced by compelling visual media displays
presenting a range of digital evidence in a convincing and credible manner (Lederer, 2004;
Schofield, 2007). There are a number of fundamental implications inherent in the shift from
oral to visual mediation and a number of facets of this modern evidence presentation …